Conveyer for ropeways.



No. 659.745. Patented not. le, |900. A. s. HALLlmE.

CNVEYER FR BPEWAYS.

(Application led Dec. 26, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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ANDREI/V S. I-IALLIDIE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA; MARTHA E. HALIiIDIE EXECUTRIX OF SAID ANDREIV S. HALLIDIE, DECEASED.

coNvEYER FOR RoPEwAYs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 659,745, dated October 16, 1900.

Application led December 26, 1899. Serial No. 741,598. (No mnrlelfl Tr) (tl/f wtmzt [it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW S. HALLIDIE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city 'and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Conveyers for Ropeways; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to a conveying attachment to be usedfor aerial wire ropeways or tramways, and is designed for the purpose of transporting sugar-cane and other material that can be made up into bundles 0r packages.

It consists, essentially, of slings in which the packages or bundles are contained, with a pole or rod from which the slings are suspended. This pole or rod is placed upon carriers suspended from the ropeway, and thus the bundle is transported to the point where it is to be delivered. The delivery is effected by an automatic unlatchin g device which disengages the pole from the arm, allowing the bundle to be delivered.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the manner of suspending the bundles for transport-ation; and Fig. 2 shows the detaching to allow them to be delivered, both with a single traveling rope. Fig. 3 shows my invention used with a standing and a hauling rope. Fig. 4 is a detail of the releasing device.

A represents a cable of a single-rope system, this cable being caused to travel in any well-known or suitable manner. To the cable at such intervals as may be desired are attached hangers 2 by means of clips 3. The lower end of each hanger is provided with a latched hinged arm 4, the projecting end of which is so disposed that it will support a pole or rod 6. The hangers are placed sufficiently far apart to permit a bundle or package of such character as the apparatus is designed for-to be suspended from the pole.

In the present case I have illustrated the device as being arranged for the transportation of sugar-cane from the point where it is cut to the mill or other station where it is to be deposited. The cane is made up in sufticiently-large bundles and is held together by means of slings 7, which may be made of wire, spring metal, or may be cords or ropes, and said slings are attached to the pole at points in suitable relation with the hangers, and when the pole is placed upon the hangers it holds the bundle suspended beneath it, so that it will be transported by the traveling cable. The device is so arranged as to automatically discharge the bundle at the desired station by making one or both of the pole-4 supports hinged or jointed or otherwise disengageable and providing a means for disengaging this support at the proper point.

If desired, the arm of the forward hanger can remain rigid; but the arm of the rear hanger is provided with a joint 8, and the latch 9 normally holds the arm in position. The arm may be weighted or otherwise so disposed that itwill when released return to its normal position and engage the latch. The end ofthe latch projects, so that when the apparatus arrives at the point of deposit this latch will strike a fixed arm or projection and will be raised and disengaged from the supporting-arm. The weight of the bundle upon the outer end of this arm will cause the arm to tilt as soon as it is disengaged from the latch or tripping-lever, and this will allow the rear end of the bundle to fall to the ground or platform, the front end of the pole sliding ofi from its arm at the same time by the continued motion 'of the forward hanger. As soon as the bundle is thus delivered the weighted end of the pole-supporting arm will swing it into its normal position, and it will again engage the latch-lever and be in condition to receive another pole with its load.

In the double-rope system, where a standing rope l0 and a hauling-rope 11 are emp1oyed,in stead of the hangers of the conveyer being attached to the cable, as in the-single-rope system, the hangers are furnished atl their upper end with wheels orrollers l2, which run on the standing rope, and the hangers are connected together by rods 13, which form a light frame and separate the hangers a proper distance apart to keep them in position. On this frame is attached the usual rope-grip 14, which clamps the frame of the conveyer to IOO the hauling-rope, and the hangers may be of the form above described for the single-rope system.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A rope or tramway carrier consisting of hangers engaging a cable, arms projecting approximately horizontal from said hangers, a pole extending between and adapted to be supported upon the arms of said hangers, slings by which the bundle is suspended from the pole during transportation, and means for disengaging the pole and bundle at the point of discharge.

2. A rope-tramway carrier, consisting of hangers, means for connecting the hangers with the traveling rope, arms carried by the hangers and adapted to support a pole which extends from one hanger-arm to the other, slings fixed to said pole adapted to sustain and carry the bundle to be transported, and

latch mechanism by which one or both of the arms are disengaged to drop the pole and bundle at the point of delivery.

3. An endless traveling rope-tramway carrier consisting of hangers, means for supporting and connecting said hangers with the traveling ropeyhinged arms projecting approximately horizontal from one or both of the hangers, a pole adapted to rest upon and be su pported by said arms, slings Within which the bundles are maintained, means for securing said slings to the pole, and a latch mechanism by which one or both of the arms are disengaged so as to drop the bundle at the delivery-station.

In Witness Whereofil have hereunto set my hand. l

ANDEW S. HALLIDIE.

Witnesses: l S. H. NoURsE, JEssIE C. BRODIE. 

